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Journaling reads:
The first Skagway bars were in tents. Archeological evidence indicates that one such establishment was on this site.
The original “Mascotte”, built early in the boom year of 1898, was one of eighty saloons in town. IT was a small, dimly lit bar in the same building as an office for a transportation company.
In 1899 the imposition of a $1,500 license fee closed most of Skagway’s saloons. The Mascot’s new owners, Charles Sacke and Albert Rienert, paid the fee and expanded their business. The Mascot offered a cigar stand, a club room, locally brewed pilsner beer, and free lunches of spareribs and enchiladas.
In 1901 the building was enlarged and the saloon again remodeled. The bar served prospectors, clerks and dock workers. Some incidents mentioned in the Daily Alaskan newspaper include fights, drawn pistols, and broken plate glass windows.
The Mascot remained prosperous ever after the gold rush. But the prohibition movement gained strength and a new Skagway law banned the sale of all but medicinal alcohol. On August 21, 1916, the Mascot Saloon closed for good.
This scene represents the Mascot after the peak of the gold rush when permanent structures in town had replaced the tent city of 1897.
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